Vegetable juice dressings --
Mix carrot, beet or other vegetable juice with a little flavoured vinegar, any kind, and use as a delicious dressing for pasta, potatoes, rice or other grain or as a marinade for fish or chicken.
Mixing fruit and veggies --
Mixed fruits and veggies make great sauces! Try mixing some fruit into any of the recipes above - be creative! Try beet and blueberry, apple, strawberry and carrot, peach and beet, peach and zucchini...
Fruit salsas --
Try mixing chopped papaya, mango or strawberry with savory herbs (like cilantro, dill, basil), chile powder, and lime or lemon juice or vinegar. Let sit about half an hour to let the flavours mingle.
Any kind of applesauce --
Make applesuace with other fruits or mixed fruits... mango, papaya, blueberry, strawberry, apricot, pear... Just remove any skin/seeds/pits/cores etc. and cook the fruit before blending it up (note: mango and papaya don't need to be cooked first, but for the other fruits, cooking tends to make the consistency better for blending and make the taste sweeter). You can add sweetener if you like but it doesn't usually need it!
Think-its-tomato beet sauce (this one is one of mine actually)
Blend up some cooked or canned beets with chile sauce or hot peppers or cayenne pepper and loads of basil and garlic. Use a little bit of water or broth to get it to the consistency of tomato sauce. Great with pasta!
'Slaw --
Grate cooked beets, carrots, zucchini, potato, spaghetti or other vegetables (or a mix of vegetables) and mix together. Add lime juice, a bit of balsamic vinegar and some dijon mustard. It's easiest to grate the veggies if you have a food processor.
Coloured potato mousse --
Mash/blend cooked potatoes with other cooked veggies (i.e. spinach for green, carrots for orange, beets for red etc.). Add a little vinegar or lemon juice and spoon into muffin tins sprayed with Pam. Put them in the oven until they get a little crispy.
*** I can attest - this is sooooo good! 
Spaghetti squash salad --
Pull apart a cooked spaghetti squash and chill the strands in a bowl. Then top with other cooked veggies, lemon juice and/or flavoured vinegars, salt, herbs, and if you like some pureed veggies like carrot or beet.
Blueberry ketchup/catsup --
Simmer fresh or frozen blueberries in vinegar (or water), herbs and honey or sugar until it reduces and then puree. Great with other fruits too!
Roasted mushroom salad --
Spray a pam with Pam and fill with any kind of mushroom. Season with salt and herbs and roast at 400+. Usually done within 90 minutes. Top with your favourite vinaigrette or with your favourite green monster mix!
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